Victims of intimate partner violence and their supporters are upset after speculation of an early election forced the Ontario legislative committee to shorten the timeline of their study. The justice policy subcommittee, co-led by a Progressive Conservative and a New Democrat, had aimed for a comprehensive examination but was compelled to expedite their work due to political circumstances.
Victims of intimate partner violence and their supporters are upset after early election speculation forced an Ontario legislative committee to cut short what was supposed to be an exhaustive study of the issue.Progressive Conservative MPP Jess Dixon and NDP MPP Kristyn Wong-Tam at the Ontario Legislature on Oct. 28, 2024.
"I don't know if there will be an early election, but given everything is possible and given everything that we've worked on, I'm expediting the timeline," said Jess Dixon, the Progressive Conservative co-lead of the committee. Wong-Tam tabled a private member's bill in March that seeks to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in Ontario.The government initially signalled it would reject the idea, then voted in favour of the bill in April after second reading and sent it to committee for a well-resourced review — including money to take the committee on the road.
While Wong-Tam said then that there were better ways to spend their time than to produce yet another report on the issue, she believed it was "better to have a seat at the table" with Dixon.
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